Pearland 2013 Agenda

Below are the links we'll be using in the August 22, 2013 workshop. Each should open in a new window so you won't have to keep finding this page again.

Handout

Infuse Learning

• Student Login

Live Feedback (Participation)

• Web
  • Poll Everywhere
  • Today’s Meet (the room for the August 22nd training)
  • Infuse Learning
• Web & App
  • Socrative

Writing Activity

• Pearland1
• Pearland2
• Pearland3
• Pearland4
• Pearland5
• Pearland6
• Pearland7
• Pearland8
• Pearland9
• Pearland10
• Pearland11
• Pearland12

Evaluation Resources: SAMR Model by Ruben Puentedura, Ph.D.

Collaborative Writing Tools

• Web
  • Google Docs
  • Primary Pad
  • Wikispaces
    • The Students' History
      • November Learning podcast: Building Legacay Within a Textbook (Garth Holman & Michael Pennington)
      • IdeaJam: Education Live Stream (students are featured from 16:50 to 38:20)
      • Link to the teachers' blog
    • Great Books for Gifted Kids Wiki
    • The Caves of Mull - choose your own adventure story written by students (not for young children)

Evaluation Resources: Apps in Education by SAMR Level

Graphic Organizers/Diagrams

• PC & App
  • Lino (App)
  • Mindmeister (iPad users - Mindmeister App)
• App
  • Grafio Lite
  • Skitch (Syncs with Evernote)
  • Popplet Lite (read this blog post for examples)
  • Inspiration Maps Lite
  • SimpleMind+
  • Idea Sketch
• PC
  • Bubbl.us
  • SpicyNodes
  • Mind42 (requires activation email)
  • Mindomo (requires activation email)
  • Exploratree (for designing then printing graphic organizers)
  • Creately
  • Cacoo.com

Evaluation Resources: Bloomin’ Apps by Kathy Schrock

Image Tools

• Word Clouds
  • Web
    • Wordsift
    • Word It Out
  • PC
    • Tagxedo (requires Microsoft Silverlight)
• Web & App
  • Thinglink (App) - Make your images interactive
• PC
  • Infogram - Make infographics
  • The Noun Project (http://thenounproject.com/) – Free icons for inforgraphics
  • Aviary - Photo editing

Storytelling

• App
  • Toontastic
  • Sock Puppets
  • Puppet Pals
  • Tellegami
  • Animation Desk Lite
  • Haiku Deck
• PC
  • Go Animate
  • Storybird
  • Little Bird Tales

Video Tools

• Web & App
  • Animoto (App)
• App
  • Pixntell (Edu version is $1.99)
  • Videolicious
• PC
  • Wevideo
• Screencasting
  • App
    • Educreations
    • ScreenChomp
    • ShowMe
  • PC
    • Jing
    • Screencast-O-Matic($15/year for editing capabilities)

Evaluation Resources: Padagogy Wheel by Allan Carrington

Other “Stuff"

• Fastest Tube - Download YouTube videos by adding a plug-in
• Tube Chop - Allows you to clip a section of a YouTube video & provide link to the clip
• Print What You Like - Allow you/student to choose exactly what you want to print from a web page
• Productivity Tools
  • Dropbox (http://db.tt/N4Wssa8Y) - web and app
    • [Disclosure - if you use the link above to signup for your own free account, we both get 500MB additional space free]
  • Evernote (http://evernote.com/) – web and app
• EduClipper - Pinterest for education
• What's Today - App for young children to learn calendar concepts (this is my app - $1.99)

Content Resources
Check out one of the resources that is closest to what you teach/support

• TED - videos of inspiring "talks" made by visionary leaders in numerous fields
• TED-Ed- model lessons that feature animated video, customizable
• Khan Academy- most notable for math, but other topics included
• Mathtrain.tv - middle school math (learn more about how Mathtrain started in a podcast)
• Wolfram Alpha- math and comparative information (search engine)
• Flipped Learning- secondary science
• Great Books for Gifted Kids Wiki - Educator created wiki to collaborate on great books for gifted kids

Blogs to Follow

• Byrdseed Gifted (http://www.byrdseed.com/) by Ian Byrd
• Unwrapping the Gifted (http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/unwrapping_the_gifted/) by Tamara Fisher
• Gifted Exchange (http://giftedexchange.blogspot.com/) by Laura Vanderkam

Twitter

• #gtchat- global conversation about gifted education, 6 pm CST (US) Fridays
• Check out the handout for suggested folks to follow and articles on Twitter.

For the independent study folks:

• Weebly- free web site creator
• TED Talks- incredible source for videos by experts and innovators in a WIDE range of fields
• RSA Animate- animated sketching that enhanced fascinating lectures
• Library 2 Play: 23 Things- blog independent study on 23 web 2.0 tools
• Livebinders - way to structure web research
• 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story - tons of web 2.0 tools for digital storytelling and much more
• Teach with Web 2.0 - another wiki filled with web 2.0 tools for teaching